Life, Love and the Everyday

Just when I thought I was about to go completely off the deep end due to writers withdrawal symptoms, Dad brought me my laptop! Hello again blogger community! Incase you are curious, I have had not been called in for work experience again but I am happy with the little I have learnt so far. Tomorrow I have a job interview at a café in town, the name of the café sounds cool so I am hoping that it is one of those laid-back places where the uniform is smart casual. But to be on the safe side, I am wearing all black. I am still volunteering every Friday afternoon and evening at my church café, I help shop for the groceries and have memorised all of the shopping list. I have learned how to make a caramel latte, cappacinos and hot chocolate - my frothing milk technique needs some improvement but I am making good progress. Last Friday was a bit more rougher than usual, while I can successfully operate the eftpos machine the out-of-whack cash register was doing my head in...

Hi everyone! I just want to check in and see how everybody is and bring you up to date about a couple of things in my life. I don't know whether I have broadcasted this or not; but I still don't have a job. However, I have successfully reapplied at my old childcare center and have dropped my resume in at fast food joints, childcare centres and local cafes and restaurants. After much thought and reflection I wandered why I wasn't getting the gigs. Needless to say, I came to the conclusion that my experience wasn't quite enough so I put the wheels in motion to remedy that. There is a new Italian restaurant in my area which is still trying to gain local recognition - so I walked down the street to see if they could offer me any. Because it is so quiet in the restaurant right now, they were happy to give me work experience but they could give me no guarantees on whether they could give me a paid job. That would be nice and all, but I agreed to the work experience b...

Six years ago I asked a work mate of mine. "How's it going?" and he replied truthfully. "It's either laugh or cry." Last night I finally found out what he was talking about. My boyfriend A. is what I like to call a passionate cook - once he's in the zone his one quest is to get dinner done - after dinner I went back to the kitchen and started to cry and laugh at the same time! Dirty dishes were piled high in the sink, traces of food were scattered over the bench-tops, floor and stove! I don't know why I laughed but I figured it was better than crying. Then I asked A. to kindly come and rinse the dishes!  Since MKR started we like to rate each other's dishes, the closest I have gotten to a ten is an eight. Sometimes my dinners rock his socks and others are complete flops and we have to substitute dinner with dessert. Until last year my master dishes were chicken and vegetable stir-fry, steak and vegetables and spaghetti bolonaise - that chan...

Hello one and all! I am sorry I have not written anything for awhile, to be honest I did not know what to write about. However, a few weeks ago I decided to return to childcare and the first place I went to was - guess where? My old work. I have applied for a casual position there but I am also considering other childcare centres to put my resume in because as you know, casual hours sort of ebb and flow. Also I am currently doing volunteer work in my church café on Fridays and love it so much that if I don't get a shift I feel somewhat deprive!. I enjoy working alongside three girls I have become quite close to and I love going home smelling like coffee-beans! The skills I am sl-ow-ly acquiring give me a sense of fulfilment and anchor a glimmer of hope that there is a future for me in the work industry, I just have to find my niche.  I still want my book café dream but I have accepted that for now I need to stick with my current skill set and to my delight, I d...

Welcome to a new week everyone! My goal for the week is to enjoy the seven day trial at the gym, stock up on fruit and make a lot of smoothies and at least get an interview for a job and hopefully get one. The first thing I want to do is get something off my chest that I have been thinking very hard about. This is a very controversial subject in light of my beliefs as a Christian. Last week I read an article in an out-dated  magazine called "The Rolling Stone" which enraged me, simply because prestigious Christian  high schools across America are subjecting their homosexual and bi-sexual students to degrading treatment by isolating them from their peers and not allowing them to participate in extra-curricular activities and banning them from key school events if the students decided to stay rather than attend another school. This awful, cutting treatment results with the teens having feelings of worthlessness which leads to self-harm or suicide. As a ...

I have had a pretty boring week, just job-searching and watching Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and My Little Pony. 10am is my favourite time of day because I watch 7th Heaven. For those of you who follow my blog and are wondering about what happened to my Study or Work Ultimatum by the 21st of January, I have decided to find work. I am hoping to find kitchen-hand or a waitressing job and work my way up to barista and eventually management. As I tell A. every week, I say that I hope to find work but for some reason it just isn't happening. As a Christian I know that my future is set and my days are planned, that I can ask God for the desires of my heart and it will be given to me if I keep asking, keep knocking and  have faith. While God has been so good with giving me a supportive network it just feels a little discouraging to have no answer the moment when I need one. To some extent all of us are waiting for the desires of our hearts to come to pass. Despite this feeling of frustr...

Life is a point of view and everyday we stand at a different angle, it's kind of like being in a movie theatre. When you sit in the front seat you are close to the action which can be exciting but at the end of it you have a sore spine and a crick in your neck. There are other times when our point of view is obstructed by something which blocks our full vision of the screen. Sometimes we are sitting on the side-lines and can see everything perfectly but we are either too content or just plain scared to move out into the centre because everybody will see us. Everybody has a reason for being where they prefer to sit, but I reckon we can all agree that there are times when we want to change our angles, but we don't know how to shift our perspective of the situation that is stopping us or maybe there are beliefs we have about ourselves that hold us back from being the person we want to be and these beliefs become excuses, which we justify for why we cannot do it. I'll use t...